Need Help With New S3

Need Help With New S3

First off howdy everyone! I recently had a friend sell me his Galaxy S3. He rooted it with something like Liquid Smooth i believe. I'm trying to unroot the phone and put it back to factory settings. How can this be done? I've tried the hold down power button, home button, and volume up button down at the same time and got to a menu. There I tapped on factory wipe i believe but after it powers up the root is still there. Please any info would be great.

Re: Need Help With New S3

Originally Posted by SeizeA7X

First off howdy everyone! I recently had a friend sell me his Galaxy S3. He rooted it with something like Liquid Smooth i believe. I'm trying to unroot the phone and put it back to factory settings. How can this be done? I've tried the hold down power button, home button, and volume up button down at the same time and got to a menu. There I tapped on factory wipe i believe but after it powers up the root is still there. Please any info would be great.

It's my understanding that you would have to use the same software that was used to root, to restore it to normal. So I would make sure it was Liquid Smooth, install it and unroot then do a factory reset.

Re: Need Help With New S3

Flashing the above would most likely brick his device since it is a Galaxy Nexus Rom and not meant for the S3.

Originally Posted by SeizeA7X

First off howdy everyone! I recently had a friend sell me his Galaxy S3. He rooted it with something like Liquid Smooth i believe. I'm trying to unroot the phone and put it back to factory settings. How can this be done? I've tried the hold down power button, home button, and volume up button down at the same time and got to a menu. There I tapped on factory wipe i believe but after it powers up the root is still there. Please any info would be great.

You need to provide us with what model S3 you have as returning to stock will be different per carrier and model. you can either provide us with the information here in this thread or go to the S3 forums and find your carrier model , look for the answer there or ask in your specific carrier S3 variant

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